Remains of the social : : desiring the postapartheid / / edited by Maurits van Bever Donker [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Van Bever Donker, Maurits M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Johannesburg : : Wits University Press,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).

Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what 'the social' might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as 'the post-apartheid social'. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of Sout...

Table of Contents

• Traversing the social / Maurits van Bever Donker [and three others]
• The Mandela imaginary: reflections on post-reconciliation libidinal economy / Derek Hook
• The return of empathy: postapartheid fellow feeling / Ross Truscott
• The ethics of precarity: Judith Butler's reluctant universalism / Mari Ruti
• Hannah Arendt's work of mourning: the politics of loss, 'the rise of the social' and the ends of apartheid / Jaco Barnard-Naudé
• Souvenir / Annemarie Lawless
• Re-cover: Afrikaans rock, apartheid's children and the work of the cover / Aiden Erasmus
• The graves of Dimbaza: temporal remains / Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick
• The principle of insufficiency: ethics and community at the edge of the social / Maurits van Bever Donker
• The Trojan Horse and the 'becoming technical of the human' / Premesh Lalu.